If you do an Internet search you’ll see various reasons why born-again Christians are hated, but one that I readily identify with is, “Their certainty; they are so certain they’re in possession of the truth.” Well, it’s true, we are. We’re in possession of the truth because Truth possesses us – His name is Jesus! We don’t have to be …
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Offended By the Name ‘Jesus’
The director of a city-owned cemetery in Colorado, USA refused to allow the name ‘Jesus’ to be engraved within Christianity’s fish symbol on a recently deceased woman’s headstone. Why? First they were told it wouldn’t fit, then they were told it might offend people. When asked by the family to reconsider, he refused, saying, “What if somebody wanted to …
Will You Let Truth Bless You or Bite You?
Just a few days before he killed himself, mad Adolf Hitler said to some of his generals, “Everyone has lied to me, everyone has deceived me, no one has told me the truth.” Hitler loved lies; some twenty-five years earlier he made the decision to base his entire life and mission on them. Karl Marx did the …
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If There Were Such a Word as ‘Evilist’…..
For a few brief minutes every work-day morning my wife and I have the TV on so as to catch up on news and weather reports. As far as the “news” is concerned, we are aware that they’re only reporting that which they want us to know rather than that which we ought to know, but …
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The Destructive Power of Uncertainty
A television presenter recently interviewed a couple whose family was experiencing severe trials and she said, “Our thoughts and prayers are with you.” It was the second time that I’ve heard this presenter use those words, but I have also heard her on another occasion express uncertainty about the existence of God. A man on the radio …
Goal Number 27
I was blessed by listening to a church pastor the other day on the Internet telling us he loves to pray and that, “I can’t live without prayer.” He told us there was no way he would know what to do or know what people are thinking if he didn’t pray. More, “you have to pray …